What festivals to the old ancestors offerings offerings incense should not be cut off

As a traditional Chinese festival, whenever it comes around the Spring Festival, families will start to get busy to welcome the New Year, and also to welcome those New Year's customs which are indispensable in the New Year. When it comes to New Year's Eve customs everyone may be familiar with them and know a lot about them. But do you know about the custom of making offerings to the ancestors? Maybe now young people will ignore this custom, but ancestor worship is very important to our Chinese people.

What festivals to the old ancestors on the offerings

Need to give the old ancestors on the offerings of the day: the first day of the New Year, the Lantern Festival, the Qingming Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the festival of ghosts, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the festival of the sun, and the anniversary of the death of a person. The rituals of offering include offering incense, reading blessings, offering rice and soup, serving tea, offering silk, offering wine, offering boxes of food, offering blessings, offering longevity, burning blessings, resigning from the gods and bowing to the gods, and so on. These cumbersome and solemn rituals also reflect the respect and remembrance of the spirits.

How to give the old ancestors offerings

Before eating the New Year's Eve dinner can be the ancestors of the tablets in a clean case, the ancestors of the tablets with yellow paper vertical writing: "XXX generations of ancestors of the place", the tablets of the material can be made of marble or wood or cardboard. The material of the tablet can be made of marble, wood or cardboard. In front of the tablets should be offered vegetarian dumplings, rice, chopsticks, fruits, ghee lamps, incense burners must be on three incense and respectfully bow three, do not forget to be sure to offer three bowls of water, and then pray that the ancestors can bless the family happiness, all the best. After 14:00 on the fifth day of the first month, you can remove the tablets and offerings. Before removing the tablets and offerings, you should bow three times respectfully, and during the period of offering, you need to change the offerings every day to keep them fresh, and the water should be changed even more frequently.

What to pay attention to when offering the old ancestors

First of all, the food in the tribute should not choose meat and fishy food, and try to choose vegetarian food; incense and candles can not be cut off; fruits do not choose pomegranates, pears, or persimmons; every time you meet the ancestors on the day of the sacrifice to the offerings; in the incense fall down and then burn the paper money, the paper money burnt in the tomb after burning firecrackers, and not to burn fireworks around the grave. The grave around the firecrackers, do not set offerings in the place or the top of the tomb; some people like to offerings, burning paper and firecrackers together, this is not okay.